Legal Advisor Role
HBA Legal offers innovative and efficient legal solutions, particularly in the insurance industry, by simplifying complex issues and delivering commercially savvy outcomes. With a focus on client partnerships and a NewLaw approach, they prioritize responsiveness, flexibility, and plain-English communication to meet commercial targets effectively.
This role sits within their Statutory Lines practice group and reports into Practice Group Lead, Ruth Slater. The specialist industry work is Western Australian CTP with ad hoc State Workers' Compensation matters.
As a Solicitor within the HBA Legal team, you will provide advice and assistance to clients in dealing with their legal matters. You can contribute to the firm's success by generating revenue, building and maintaining positive relationships with clients, and representing their values-based approach to work within the market.
Responsibilities:
* Maintain and develop strong client relationships through participating in value-adding activities and support, keeping clients informed of case progress during the course of the matter
* Provide advice and run files in a clear and logical manner within required timeframes, developing sound case management strategies
* Undertake and complete work with the expected level of guidance and supervision, including but not limited to: analysis of evidence, opinion work, preparation of documents, speaking to witnesses and briefing experts, court attendance on interlocutory matters
* Proactively share knowledge, experience, and insights with immediate and wider teams in order to enhance client experience and internal knowledge management
* Confer with colleagues and experts with specialties to establish and verify the basis for legal proceedings
* Ensure understanding and compliance with firms policies and procedures
* Supervise paralegals working in the team
* Delegate and manage work direction to administrative assistants
* Ensure you stay abreast of industry updates, including constitution, statutes, decisions, regulation, and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies to determine ramifications for cases
Working under the guidance of senior members of your team, you will grow your technical skills in key areas such as legal writing, research, and information synthesis, analytical thinking, and commercial acumen. They will provide mentoring from legal experts for your continual growth and learning. In this role, your billable target is 6.7 hours per day.
You will enjoy a values-based business with a customer focus, a culture of innovation where employee ideas are part of the mix, mentoring from legal experts, and continual growth and learning. Minimal bureaucracy allows you to create and achieve with support. A 'one-HBA' business model enables cross-team collaboration, and opportunities to get involved across service areas and projects are available.
About the role:
* Generate revenue, build relationships with clients, and represent the firm's values-based approach to work within the market
* Contribute to the team, work collaboratively and effectively across the firm, demonstrate effective time management and work organisation, resilience and tenacity, balance competing priorities, coordinate work effectively, meet deadlines, motivate yourself to achieve financial targets, work autonomously, under pressure, and collaboratively when required
* Demonstrate ability to provide sound legal advice in personal injury law, experience in CTP work preferred (with plaintiff or defendant)
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious individual to join our team and contribute to the delivery of high-quality legal services to our clients.